Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.

No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.